Esmé Currey

Esmé Mary Evelyn Currey (March 1881 – June 1973) was a British artist, known for her printmaking and for her paintings.^[1]

Esmé Currey
Born	1881 Kensington, London, England
Died	1973 (aged 92)
Alma mater	Slade School of Fine Art Goldsmiths' College
Known for	Painting, printmaking

Biography

Currey was born at Kensington in London and was privately educated both there and in Dresden after which she returned to London to study at the Slade School of Fine Art.^[2] She then studied with the artist Max Meldrum at Melbourne in Australia, before studying engraving at Goldsmiths' College in London.^[3] Currey established a studio in London and produced images, often of landscapes and architecture, in pencil, as etchings and as paintings in tempera.^[2] She exhibited at a wide variety of venues, notably at the Royal Academy in London between 1910 and 1949 and also with the Society of British Artists, the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers, the Royal Hibernian Academy, the Senefelder Club and the United Artists group.^[2][3] In 1929 she exhibited at the Paris Salon.^[4] The British Museum in London holds two prints by Currey in its permanent collection.^[1]

References

1. "Esmé Mary Evelyn Currey". The British Museum. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
2. Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN 978-1-911121-63-3.
3. David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.
4. Stephen Bury, ed. (2013). Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators Volume 1. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199923052.